Race Quotes
It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts
Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals.
On the Trans-Atlantic Single-handed Race Mr Owen Smithers has been disqualified for using both hands.
Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, individuals.
The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.
A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made
Each individual has a responsibility to get out of bed, learn their ABCs, learn your math tables, not use race and racism as an excuse.
But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.
A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.
It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
The race may or may not be to the swift, but tell me, is it likely that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?
Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.
While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.
Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.
There are people out there who have been trying to pursue acting, but they've said stuff like, Oh, we're not looking for anybody with your race. But now, we're all here to show the truth.
With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.
The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether
I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.
I live in New York right now but I'm originally from my daddy's nuts. We all are. Think about, we the lucky ones - we made it. You all are winners. That's the first race you ever won.
They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.
Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.
Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.
I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.
It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No.
It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.
At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.
We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.
This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.